The above image, the sources insist, is the dildo after it was kicked off the field by an official who elected not to pick it up with his hands:

We were initially skeptical that this could be the dildo; the one visible on the TV broadcast does not appear to have a pink head, for example, though for technological reasons of video encoding and compression the color could have been “washed out.” A second, independent source provided Deadspin with a different photo of the same dildo, however. The background of the photo at the top of this post matches that of the “warning track” material that surrounds the turf.